Summary
Concentrations of river pollution are monitored regularly by water authorities and the results of their monitoring are available to the public. Monitoring results—used in conjunction with the results of effluent sampling—will help demonstrate where pollution in the river originates and how much impact on river quality the discharges from a particular factory or sewage works are having. However, factories and sewage works are not the only causes of river pollution; other sources also have to be considered when interpreting monitoring results. Similarly, changes in river quality may be caused by variations in natural factors and not by increased or decreased discharges of effluent.
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References and Notes
J. Cranfield and M. Bonfiel, Waterways Atlas of the British Isles (Pinner: Cranfield and Bonfiel Books, 1966).
From: J. H. N. Garland and I. C. Hart, ‘Water Quality Relationships in the River System’, Symposium of the Trent Research Programme organised by the Institute of Water Pollution Control, University of Nottingham (15–16 April 1971). Available from Water Research Centre as Reprint No. 621.
A. L. Downing and R. W. Edwards, ‘Effluent Standards, and the Assessment of the Effects of Pollution on Rivers’, in ‘Symposium on Effluent Standards’, Water Pollution Control Vol. 68 (1969) No. 3, pages 283–99.
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Frankel, M. (1978). River Pollution Monitoring. In: The Social Audit Pollution Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15906-2_8
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